Newsflash:  United States President George W. Bush's insightful expert analysis of the motivating factors behind world events unequivocally corroborated by a story he heard on his trip to a foreign country:

During a tour, [U.S. Lt. Col. William] Miller told Bush that axes used by North Korean soldiers to kill two US servicemen in 1976 were in a "peace museum" just across the border.

Shaking his head in disgust, Bush said: "No wonder I think they're evil."

- Reported by Ron Fournier, Associated Press, Panmunjom, Korea, February 20, 2002. [Boulder Daily Camera, Bush tours front line of 'axis'].

Stephanie Salter of the San Francisco Chronicle notices how one might conceivably take offense at, for example, the explanation of a Smithsonian Institute exhibit about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibit text quickly balances the horror of the loss of life with:

"However, the use of the bombs led to the immediate surrender of Japan and made unnecessary the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. Such an invasion ... would have led to very heavy casualties among American and Allied troops and Japanese civilians and military."

Stephanie Salter asks, "Is it so hard to imagine that some people might be troubled by ... an equation in which tens of thousands of dead Japanese men, women and children are a 'however,' but two dead U.S. soldiers are proof of 'evil'?"

- Sunday, February 24, 2002 in the San Francisco Chronicle, "Evil is in the Eye of the Beholder."  Also posted on Common Dreams.